What would say that turns you on musically nowadays? As a professional and experienced Dj, what can you say that makes the difference in order to instill enthusiasm in people when proposing a new sound?

Hi there, thank you for having me on VOCE SPETTACOLO.

I always explore something new to inspire myself musically. From undiscovered releases from the past to the most recent, forward thinking electronic music. I also always love challenges and my current challenge is maximizing the efficiency of simplicity in my DJ set and the studio work. I really believe in what I do and my craft with confidence and to me this is key to make difference.

Communicating with music ofter means to have a very strong inner and personal motivation to express oneself. When you make music, what’s your main focus? Do you think about the public or about enjoying yourself first?

The fact is that the musical creation is the fruit of the passion of artist, and I strongly believe that artists themself should enjoy creating something first in order to share this passion with public.

Talking about the Electronic soundscape, we can say it’s been a lot on the move within the last few years. Let’s think about EDM for example. It’s been able to attract huge masses of people like big concerts were able to do. Now it looks this tendency is fading a bit and we see a return of the old style.

If you had to bet on it, what musical tendency would you say it’s going to develop and start attracting people in the next future?

I’ve never owned a crystal ball and never been able to guess what’s the next big thing 🙂

What they are saying is ‘anything gets too popular will be killed’ this is the universal rule. There will be many ‘next big things’ and they all eventually ‘killed’. Something gets to the top, the only way is down, I am not being negative but this is just how it goes in the world so I’d like to keep climbing gradually, endlessly.

I believe – whatever the trend in the scene is, the “real things” survive.

Nowadays it’s much easier to broadcast and diffuse music, thanks to many ad-hoc built websites, promoting artists and their tunes and also thanks to the social networks. What’s your relationship with the web and social networks and how have you adapted yourself and your job to all what’s happening out there?

Web and social media are great tools to communicate with the audience. I don’t have a show off type of personality and not interested in exposing everything I do in everday life on the personal level but

things like what I do in the studio and behind the booth are fun things to share.

Sometimes I do live sets from my studio etc. it’s a lot of fun and the instant reaction is one of amazing things of it.

Mostly relates to music, gears, traveling and food – definitely the most important things in my life!

What is your relationship with your fans? Do you enjoy being recognized by people and also followed and approached on socials? In regards to this do you dedicate your fans some of your time for example, accepting their music suggestions or demos?

Even it’s rare, I am totally flattered by being recognized. I appreciate and am thankful to be remembered by what I do for my passion. Sometimes people asking questions on the social media https://www.facebook.com/satoshi.tomiie.dj , I am enjoying giving musical advises and technical suggestions. Occasionally some people write to try to give me musical direction I should take etc.. Opinions are always welcome, I find it interesting.

According to you how important are the connections in the industry with other artists in order to improve yourselves and understanding the change of music inclinations and trends?

Sharing information and ideas with other artists (especially the ones with similar musical taste and direction) are very important for me. It was also quite important to talk to record shops back in the vinyl time, discovering something new by talking to real people. These years with the rise of the popularity of Wax once again, this is making a comeback which I am enjoying it a lot at the moment.

Can you tell us about what the public should expect from Satoshi Tomiie in the upcoming future? What are your plans and projects you can disclose to us?

From the release of the last album NEW DAY (Abstract Architecture), I have been exploring new musical direction. Since the release of the album, 5 vinyl as ALBUM SAMPLER have been out. I’ve had Ron Trent, Cab Drivers, Brawther, Fred P and DJ Sneak as remixers. While working with these talented people, I’ve developed the new musical direction.

So many grooves were made for the last 2 years, some of them are already released such as 512 EP on Kaos Theory https://soundcloud.com/satoshitomiie/sets/satoshi-tomiie-512-ep-kaoz . The way I make music went back to almost 100% hardware instruments and it gives me a lot of inspirations. With the powerful modern DAW such as Ableton Live, the vintage harware has a new life.

I’ll continue exploring this way of making music and can’t wait to see what comes out from my studio.

The plan of this year is quite exciting for me. I’ve done a remix for London’s Fuse resident Seb Zito on his own new label, a collaboration EP with Tuccillo on Holic Trax https://www.facebook.com/HolicTRAX/ and another EP of my own is planned on Abstract Architecture.

A remix album ABSTRACT NATURE is scheduled to be released very soon, it includes unreleased remixes from Maayan Nidam, Pablo Mateo and Ron Trent.

And lastly, I am quite excited to play 3 times this summer for Circo Loco at DC10.